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Homeless and hooked on cocaine, Dellenna Harper had long since turned her back on her family, her friends, and herself.

In the midst of what she called a "steep downward spiral of self-destruction," she'd traveled the country with truck drivers, looking for the next score. Eventually, she wound up in jail, before she "basically slid under the door" of the Jennifer House in 2006, a Rochester home run by Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach for women who have just been released from incarceration.

Seven years later, she's the home's director. And helping her at nearly every step along the way was ...